Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1887-09-15
MARYLAND NEWS.


dition.
The B. & o. deal still absorbs public
attention. { | N 4
There were 10000 people Sunday 1t
Asbury Grove Camp.
The united labor party has been Or
gained In Baltimore.
Twenty-Five women want postoflice
clerkships in Baltimore.
The colored people have State Gen.
trail committee in the field.
Maryland will send 1900 troops to
the Philadelphia celebration.
The sub treasuryatB altimore hal re.
deemed 444, 845 trade dollars. Y
Mr.. G. P. Wright's twenty ,eighth
child was christened in East Baltimore.
+ There are fifty.fve candidates for
postoflice civil-service examinations in
Baltimore.
About 1900 Maryland soldiers will
go to the Philadelphia celebration this
month.
There are yet left two Old Defenders
who will be able to be out on the 18th.
In Baltimore.
1t is doubtful whether the Carroll
county republicans will nominate Il
county ticket.
There were thirty-two failures at the
first examination in English for admis
sions to the Naval Academy.
Howard county farmers complain of
organized depredations on their or
chards, gardens, &c.
Owing to the giving way Of brakes
a freight tram dashed into the depot
platform at Rockville wrecking it.
There,was IN amusing Scene at Sails.
bury between acouple who had arrang.
ed through an advertisement to marry.
i A colore,lsman named William Niles
jumped from;the fifthtier in the Balti-
more Jail, a distance ofSffty Sfeet.A The
doctor said no bones were broken.
-Fhe -prohibit,onists have opened their
campaign with mass meeting at Mt.
Washington. Symmetrical Baldwin has
accepted the nomination for Governor.
1t is estimated that 100000 people
visited the Granger Picnic at William s
Grove and that orders were taken for
$3.50 900 worth of machinery.
The baseball season is drawing to a
close; it looks as though Baltimore
will hold fourth place and st, Louis
first in the Association and Detroit ia
the League.
Col. Odom in his temperance address
at Baltimore, Sunday, said "The time
will come, when prohibition will pre-.
vail, and the devil will go hopping about
on wooden leg with black eye y
1t is said that one-third of the coun-
ties of Maryland have full prohibition
tickets nominated, and in two weeks
the prohibition candidates for the Leg.
islature will he nominated in Baltimore
city.
r. NJ. Lockwood, of the Baltimore
Cycle Club, sailed from New York on
Thursday on the steamer State Of Ne.
braska for Glasgow, Scotland, where
he will commence tour Of the Scottish
lakes on his bicycle. He will also make
tour on his wheel through England,
France and Germany.
Clinton E. Williams is in Jail IN Bal.
timore upon a charge Of blgamy. Two
wives confronted him, and the accused
said he had been married five times, and
as often enlisted in the army and left
them to shift for themselves. Thrice
he deserted from the army, and once
was discharged as insane.
The United States revenue steamer
Rush, while cruising in Hehing Sea dur.
ing July, captured three British vessels
and one American, all heavily laden
with seal skins, taken from forbidden
waters. All the vessels and crews were
sent to Sitka, Alaska for legal proceed
ings. Now let us see if the State de-
partment at Washington will truckle
to England and let the British violators
of law go Toledo Blode.
The instruments of the Baltimore and
Ohio Telegraph Company were removed
from the exchange ball of the Board of
Trade in Chicago, on Saturday after
noon, and the officers of the company
were informed that the privileges of
the floor would be. denied them until
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